Kelt vs Kilt - What's the difference?
kelt | kilt |
(Scotland) Cloth with the nap, generally of native black wool.
To gather up (skirts) around the body.
* 1933 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Cloud Howe'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 385:
A traditional Scottish garment, usually worn by men, having roughly the same morphology as a wrap-around skirt, with overlapping front aprons and pleated around the sides and back, and usually made of twill-woven worsted wool with a tartan pattern.
(historical) Any Scottish garment from which the above lies in a direct line of descent, such as the philibeg, or the great kilt or belted plaid;
A plaid, pleated school uniform skirt sometimes structured as a wrap around, sometimes pleated throughout the entire circumference; also used as boys' wear in 19th century USA.
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A variety of non-bifurcated garments made for men and loosely resembling a Scottish kilt, but most often made from different fabrics and not always with tartan plaid designs.
Kilt is a alternative form of kelt.
As nouns the difference between kelt and kilt
is that kelt is a thin, recently spawned Atlantic salmon while kilt is a traditional Scottish garment, usually worn by men, having roughly the same morphology as a wrap-around skirt, with overlapping front aprons and pleated around the sides and back, and usually made of twill-woven worsted wool with a tartan pattern.As a verb kilt is
to gather up (skirts) around the body.kelt
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(wikipedia kelt)Etymology 1
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Compare Icelandic (kult), quilt.Noun
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kilt
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(wikipedia kilt)Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
(en verb)- Else at her new place worked outdoor and indoor, she'd to kilt' her skirts (if they needed ' kilting – and that was damned little with those short-like frocks) and go out and help at the spreading of dung […].
